Houston Weather at 3 A.M. Monday: 70.8 Degrees and Overcast - Election Day's Rain Code Jumps to 82
Houston stood at 70.8 degrees under an overcast sky at 3 a.m. Monday, and the day itself stays the week's driest. The change in the overnight feed is tomorrow: Election Day's weather code has climbed from 53 to 82 - the violent-rain-showers end of the scale - with the rain chance still at 84 percent and the low down to 64.5.
HOUSTON - Houston stood at 70.8 degrees under overcast skies (code 3) at 3 a.m. on Monday, feeling like 77.5, according to the station's live weather feed - two degrees cooler than the 1 a.m. read, on the last quiet night before Election Day.
Monday itself remains the week's driest and simplest day: overcast (code 3), a high of 81.4, a low of 69.2 and a rain chance of 2 percent. The high eased four-tenths of a degree and the low rose nine-tenths against the 1 a.m. feed - small moves that do not change the day's character: gray, mild and dry for the campaign's final errands.
Tuesday - Election Day - is where the feed moved. Its weather code has jumped from 53, the steady rain code the station carried at 1 a.m., to 82, which on the World Meteorological Organization scale the feed uses denotes violent rain showers. The rest of Tuesday's line hardened with it: a high of 80.9, a low down to 64.5 from 69.9, and the rain chance unchanged at 84 percent. On the day Harris County's polls run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the morning update will matter - and the desk will carry it before the centers open.
The week behind Tuesday is unchanged from the overnight reads: Wednesday overcast at 80.4 with an 18 percent rain chance, Thursday the week's coolest day at 76.4 with a drizzle code (51), and Friday through Sunday back in the low 80s under overcast skies with rain chances of 12 to 14 percent.
